Leptogenys clarki

An Online Catalog of the Ants of the World by Barry Bolton

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Leptogenys clarki Wheeler, 1933 valid

Leptogenys clarki Wheeler, 1933i: 82, fig. 26 (w.) AUSTRALIA (Western Australia). Australasia.

Primary type information: Primary type material: syntype workers (number not stated). Primary type locality: Australia: Western Australia, Geraldton, 9.x.1931 (W.M. Wheeler). Primary type depository: MCZC. Type notes: 1) Wheeler, 1933i mentions “4 colonies... (of) 6, 20, 24, 25 (ants) respectively”. 2) Presumably not all were mounted.

Status as species: Taylor & Brown, 1985: 32; Taylor, 1987a: 34; Bolton, 1995b: 230; Heterick, 2009: 133.

Citations

Bolton, B. 1995b. A new general catalogue of the ants of the world. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 504 pp.
Heterick, B. E. 2009. A guide to the ants of south-western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 76:1-206. PDF
Taylor, R. W. 1987a. A checklist of the ants of Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) Division of Entomology Report 41:1-92. PDF
Taylor, R. W.; Brown, D. R. 1985. Formicoidea. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 2:1-149, 306-348.
Wheeler, W. M. 1933i. Colony founding among ants, with an account of some primitive Australian species. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, viii + 179 pp.

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